StarTrail: Let Your Mouse Pointer Shine
I know that there are some people who truly enjoy glossy visual effects. Yep, there ya go, I see some hands at the back. Mac OS X, for the most part, handles its visual effects really elegantly.
But if there’s one thing that’s boring, it’s the mouse pointer. While we get these gorgeous animations with Front Row and Expose, the mouse pointer is still either monochromatic or that spinning beach ball.
If you want to add some deliciousness to that tired old mouse pointer, why not try StarTrail? Made by the developers over at Pawn Software, this app leaves a trail of shiny stars behind your mouse pointer. Sure it won’t help with your productivity, but at least it makes that boring old mouse pointer more fun to watch.
There are a load of options that you can tweak, ranging from the particles’ shape to their lifetime and color. These options are provided in an intuitive preference pane that can be selected from the icon in the menu bar. You can also have the program startup automatically when your Mac boots up.
You will need to be running Mac OS X 10.4 or later with a Quartz Extreme-compatible video card. StarTrail is available for free as a universal binary from Pawn Software.
Visual effects for the sake of visual effects are silly.
Yeah…. but they are cool! Look, these things are completely useless. But they’re also fun to play around with and show off what the Mac OS can do.
Anyone know how to do this on a website like this: http://www.wonderlandlove.com/ without using flash?
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these are rubish all they do is move around and make stupit swerls